Deserts, ice sheets, city-planets and one ocean that thinks. Some you could point to on a map of the galaxy; others you would rather not visit.
1TatooineThe twin-sunned desert planet of Star Wars where both Anakin and Luke Skywalker grew up.1000pts
2LV-426The storm-lashed moon of Alien and Aliens, where the crew of the Nostromo answered a distress signal.898pts
3BarsoomEdgar Rice Burroughs's dying Mars, where John Carter arrives in 1912 and finds himself able to leap over cities.835pts
4MagratheaThe Hitchhiker's Guide planet whose industry is building custom planets, Earth included.571pts
5RingworldLarry Niven's artificial band circling a star, with the surface area of three million Earths.571pts
6KryptonSuperman's doomed homeworld, destroyed moments after its last son was launched toward Earth.571pts
7PandoraThe bioluminescent moon of Avatar, home to the Na'vi and a forest that functions as one networked mind.571pts
8SolarisStanisław Lem's ocean world, a single thinking sea that reads its visitors' minds back to them.571pts
9CaladanHouse Atreides' green ocean homeworld in Dune, the opposite of everything Arrakis is.571pts
10TrantorThe city-covered capital of Asimov's Galactic Empire in the Foundation novels.467pts
11MongoThe planet Flash Gordon crash-lands on, ruled by Ming the Merciless since 1934.467pts
12Miller's PlanetThe Interstellar world orbiting so close to a black hole that one hour there costs seven years on Earth.467pts
13ArrakisThe desert world of Frank Herbert's Dune, the only source of the spice melange and the model every fictional desert planet since has copied.467pts
14CoruscantThe Star Wars capital, a single city wrapped around an entire planet.467pts
15HothThe ice planet that opens The Empire Strikes Back, defended by walkers and tauntauns.467pts
16GethenThe frozen world of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, nicknamed Winter.343pts
17GallifreyThe Time Lords' homeworld in Doctor Who, with its burnt-orange sky and silver-leafed trees.343pts
18VulcanSpock's arid homeworld in Star Trek, where logic is a discipline rather than a temperament.0pts
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Arrakis arrived in 1965, Tatooine twelve years later, and eighteen worlds separate them here, from Trantor to the planet where an hour costs seven years: https://youpick.best/articles/dune-ranked-many-ways
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